Urgent Action: Father Appeals for Son’s Life to be Spared (USA: UA 37.18)

Thomas Whitaker, aged 38, is due to be executed in Texas on 22 February. He was convicted in 2007 of the murder of his mother and brother in a shooting in which his father was badly wounded but survived. The father is appealing for clemency for his son.

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Thomas Whitaker, aged 38, is due to be executed in Texas on 22 February. He was convicted in 2007 of the murder of his mother and brother in a shooting in which his father was badly wounded but survived. The father is appealing for clemency for his son.

1) TAKE ACTIONWrite a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:

Calling on the Texas authorities to commute the death sentence of Thomas Whitaker;

Noting support for clemency from inmates, guards, and the prisoner’s father, also a victim of the crime;

Noting that the actual gunman received a life sentence and the very troubling claims surrounding the prosecution’s alleged solicitation of the defendant’s confession and its use in arguing for a death sentence.

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